I'm an Orwell Prize-winning journalist and author specialising in drugs and crime, based in London. I've been Global Drugs Editor at VICE since 2018 and was a columnist for them since 2013. I like to write investigations and long-form stuff, sometimes from abroad. I’ve worked as a development producer for a few Vice documentaries.
As a freelancer, I've written for the Guardian, Times, Buzzfeed, Marie Claire, Mail on Sunday, BBC, Mirror, Independent and specialist magazines. Before freelancing I was editor of Druglink, feeding the national media and the sector with UK drug use trends, investigations and analysis of the UK drug market, for eight years. Previously I was deputy news editor on the Big Issue. I was a lecturer in journalism at the LCC for two years.
My book about the UK drug world Narcomania, co-written with Steve Sampson, was published by Windmill Books in 2013.